WAP120106- 12 AUGUST 1997 -WASHINGTON, DC, USA: President Richard Nixon (L) meets in private with Elvis Presley on 21 December 1970 at the White House. During the meeting Elvis asked if Nixon could give him an official badge from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, once-secret papers revealed. Elvis told Nixon that he wanted to lend his name to the president's law enforcement initiative. In a letter to Nixon, Elvis made a pitch to be named a federal drug enforcement agent. Elvis died in Memphis on August 16, 1977. cc/files UPI
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Pulitzer Prize-winner Edwin Guthman, press secretary for Sen. Robert Kennedy in the early 1960s, has died at the age of 89, the Los Angeles Times said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Who did presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois choose as his running mate? Was it Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware or Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius? Or will it be some surprise dark horse?
NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Stacy Keach is to play former President Richard Nixon in the U.S. touring production of Peter Morgan's drama, "Frost/Nixon," the show's representatives said.
NEW YORK, July 27 (UPI) -- Charles L. Brieant Jr., a former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, has died. He was 85.